Quid Sit Deus?
Quid Sit Deus?

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I will show how rarely the question “What is God?” has been formulated by modern scholars of mythology. It seems as if they think it is far less important question than “Who is that God?” or as if the answer is an obvious one. But neither “what” is the same as “who”, nor the answer to the “what question” is obvious in any way. Following a Nietzsche’s hermeneutic proposal, according to which the presence of a God always creates a world around him, I prove to find a response to what’s the meaning of a world for us. I follow this way to the conclusion that we call “world” to that a God gives us in exchange for the gift of unconditional faith we put on his altars. Analyzing the relationship among God, faith and the world, are emerging to me different profiles of what is a God and that finally lead me to the question "What is law?". However, in the Socratic texts the pious man appears as that one that knows the laws but never formulated this question.

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